Log in to comment on this word. Word of the day: manticore. a monster with a lion's body, a scorpion's tail, and a man's head with three rows of teeth. It roamed the jungles of India and, like the Sphinx , would ask travellers a riddle and kill them when they failed to answer it. See full definition.
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